“An important contribution from the standpoint of historical truth.”
+ Booklist 16:273 My ’20
“As a question of strategy one of the most interesting parts of the book is that dealing with the plans drawn for a joint army and navy effort to turn the enemy out of his Belgian bases.” C. C. Gill
+ Bookm 51:477 Je ’20 1700w
“Admiral Bacon’s book has in it much matter for the layman and much for the expert. For that reason it is more shapeless than have been many books written about the war. For that reason also, it is a truer presentment of the conditions obtaining.” Muriel Harris
+ Nation 110:657 My 15 ’20 750w + Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 6Ow
“For this lucid and sailor-like account of an essential service Admiral Bacon deserves praise.”
+ Review 3:707 Jl 7 ’20 1400w
“This notable book wavers a little between treatise and narrative, but it is well worth reading all the same. A certain sense of grievance animates Sir Reginald Bacon’s pages. But it only obtrudes itself here and there, for instance, in a tendency to belittle the method of Admiral Keyes’s attack on Zeebrugge.”
+ Sat R 128:sup13 N 29 ’19 1050w